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my water broke at 34 weeks. he had an e-coli infection from my water being broken for around 60 hrs. He was there for a week and is perfect now at 17 months old! :)
it sucks though right. i HATED leaving him there! i had a c-section also, but I didnt care.. i drove to the hospital to see him every day.

I was diagnosed with severe preeclampsia at 33 weeks and had to deliver right away. Tess was born weighing 2 lbs 15 oz and only 16" long. She had no major issues, just some light anemia and one day of light treatment for jaundice. She spent 28 days in the NICU to fatten up to 4 lbs or so.

It was tough! I was only allowed to hold her once a day for an hour. So in my spare time I got the nursery finished, recovered from my c-section, and got ready to bring home a very small baby.

My twins were born at 33 weeks, so they spent 3 weeks in the NICU. I was told that they would be there the entire 7 weeks that they were early, but they did so well they got to come home early. I hated when they were in the Nicu though...made me cry everytime.

I had an emergency c-section and my son's head got stuck. It took them 17 min to get him out and two doctors to do it. He didn't breathe for 2 min and they almost lost both of us. He was put in NICU and intubated. Thankfully the kid is crazy resiliant and was out of NICU in 48 hours. I on the other hand, ended up with an infection and was stuck in the hosp for 5 days. I am so sorry you are going thru this. It is hard having a baby in NICU. Hang in there.

I had a placental abruption very early in my pregnancy and my went into labor and had an emergency c-section at exactly 24 weeks.

My son spent 16 weeks in the NICU, and came home on his due date.

It was the most difficult thing I have ever had to deal with.

I have a daughter as well, so I had to split my time between staying home with her and spending time with him in the NICU.

I pumped, and while he was in the hospital he never had formula. It made me feel really good that although I couldn't be with him all the time, he was receiving my milk. Sometimes it felt like that was the only thing I could really do for him and I'd like to think that he did as well as he did because of it.

I had placenta previa, and we had my son via emergency c at 34 weeks. He spent 2 weeks in the NICU, he was having trouble regulating his body temperature and eating. I'm happy to say that he hasn't had any serious issues since, and he is now almost 3.